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The Economic impact of AI

Policymakers must think through their response to widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence A recent article in the Financial Times exposed the widespread corporate interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), its power […]

Policy-making for the Real World

Progressive governments must build the capability for joined-up policy-making The UK Labour government was elected with a perfectly reasonable diagnosis that the country was in urgent need of national renewal, […]

If Labour Meant Business

What it would take for Labour to become an effective progressive party again, and how they could do it Hannah Spencer of the Green Party is now MP for Gorton […]

Healthcare Privatisation — Should We Care?

Why we should be concerned about the Nature, Extent and Impact of Healthcare Privatisation in the UK This is an approximate transcript of the meeting in Parliament on 24 February […]

Can We Afford MMT? The Question Makes No Sense

Modern Monetary Theory isn’t a potentially risky radical fiscal plan but simply a description of how the British state already spends This article is by Vince Gomez, 99% member, former […]

Rewiring the State for National Success

This is an approximate transcript of the second meeting of the Progressive Economics Working Group, held in Parliament on 10 February 2026 to launch a new report on Rewiring for […]

What if Biden had Listened?

The lessons the Democrats could have learned from the Arab Spring In 2012, I and others developed a model of country stability to better understand the Arab Spring. The model […]

Time to Defend Democracy

Why we need urgent action to protect our democracy and our social contract European democracy is at risk from hostile actors. In the UK, if we do not act, we […]

What if Keynes was right?

How a widespread but false narrative is condemning us to economic decline The post-war decades were the Golden Age of Capitalism during which most countries, successfully adopted a Keynesian view […]

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